Word Origin & History

suspend late 13c., "to bar or exclude temporarily from some function or privilege, to cause to cease for a time," from O.Fr. suspendre, from L. suspendere "to hang, stop," from sub "up from under" + pendere "cause to hang, weigh" (see pendant). The lit. sense of "to cause to hang by a support from above" is recorded from mid-15c. Suspenders is attested from 1810, Amer.Eng. Suspended animation first recorded 1795.

Example Sentences for suspended

The movement of British shipping, on the Chilian coast had to be suspended.

In the interior of the huts were suspended hammocks made of cotton.

Both passengers in the air-ship were now leaning over the rail of the suspended car.

The telephone, telegraph and mail service have been suspended.

The tilting ring, suspended from the top of the arch, was not more than an inch in diameter.

But by and by the war came, commerce was suspended, my occupation was gone.

He wore the black cassock of the Recollets, the waist girded by a cord from which was suspended a cross and a book of devotions.

They were suspended by cords from a gibbet, to be fired at by a platoon of soldiers.

If we study a skeleton, we see that it must be suspended, that it cannot be propped up.

At length Gen. Lee gave way, for which he was afterwards court-martialed and suspended for one year.